Psychology as the Defender of Modernity (eBook)

The Different Functions of Psychology in Modernity

Christoph Klotter (Autor)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2022
XIII, 60 Seiten
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (Verlag)
978-3-658-38401-2 (ISBN)

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People in Germany have an indifferent to poor relationship with our society. In fact, modernity, i.e. the last 200 years, has given the population historically unprecedented progress: democracy, human rights, social security systems, nutritive abundance. Yet this is little appreciated. This may be due to the fact that, in Diderot's sense, we have to prove ourselves permanently, that is, we live in a meritocracy that produces suffering.  However, totalitarian ideologies have also emerged and been implemented in modernity, for which modernity is also responsible. This essential shows that psychology, on closer inspection, turns out to be the defender of the good parts of modernity.

Christoph Klotter holds a professorship in nutritional psychology and health promotion at Fulda University of Applied Sciences. He is a psychological psychotherapist.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2022
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• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 60 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Original-Titel: Die Psychologie als Verteidigerin der Moderne
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Schlagworte: Having to prove oneself in the modern age • Psychology as defender of modernity • The "anything is possible" in modernity • The devaluation of modernity • The different functions of psychology in the modern age
• ISBN-10: 3-658-38401-8 / 3658384018
• ISBN-13: 978-3-658-38401-2 / 9783658384012